If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it

The Docker Book

I’m pleased to announce I’m writing another
book (I’m actually writing
two but this is the only one I’m going to tell you about right now).
Over the last few months I’ve been playing with
Docker, and have been really impressed by how
cleanly it provides awesome containers.

I’ve been largely using these containers as multiple stand-alone Puppet masters
(make of that what you will :)) but I’ve also been looking at Docker
containers as process jails and CI testing environments. Whilst the team
at dotCloud doesn’t quite think the Docker project is ready for
production prime-time I think it’s on the cusp. As a result I think it’s
an ideal candidate for a new book.

So I’ve started writing the originally titled The Docker
Book. It should be released in the next few
months depending on how little sleep I can get away with. The tentative
table of contents (subject to change) is:

1. Introduction to Docker
2. Installing Docker
3. First steps with Docker
4. Building services with Docker
5. Building your own PAAS with Docker
6. Building your own Docker containers

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